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> To say it is any more or less prestigious than winning Monaco is a purely subjective manner. Of course it's subjective, and anyone who would declare a particular race "the greate…

Oh, you're so awesome it hurts? Sorry to hear about your rich people problems. > the greatest motor race in the world: 24 hours of Le Mans The entire southern half of the U.S. begs…

"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu

> The move today will affect every part of the San Francisco social gaming company . . . Zynga is a gaming company? That's news to me -- I thought they were still in the business o…

Right, also trying to reinforce the fact that we're talking about actual gameplay testing and not something code related (a lot of people might assume the latter since this is on H…

One guy had one bad experience as a gameplay tester, and now it's time for all gaming contractors to strike? That's a pretty big leap. This sounds like a typical story of poor mana…

> You're either a black/grey hat or a white hat. Either you're a white hat and believe selling to malicious hackers is fundamentally wrong and you wouldn't do it at any price, or y…

Less money = less incentive = fewer disclosures = less secure. Facebook is abusing the good will of white hats by offering such trivial sums, and they're reducing the security of t…

I'd be extremely hesitant to trust these guys with a single cent right now. They requested $400k in their last Kickstarter and received over $3.3 million, but that project (now cal…

> She graduated in 1994 with more than $100,000 of debt. Within three years, she had one daughter, a surprise set of twins, and was earning less than $50,000 per year. 3 kids while…

Why? They just alienated gamers while showing non-gamers that they've been overpaying for a glorified Netflix machine. I've been a diehard Xbox fan since I first got my hands on th…

> He clearly shows that he includes basic arithmetic in his definition. He mentioned arithmetic just to show that he's not being 100% literal about the "I can't do math" statement.…

That's mainly directed at the person who wrote the essay (a math professor) and others like him who blame the students rather than themselves. I think he should be examining the st…

People who say "I can't do math" are lazy? Sorry, but I think that's a gross oversimplification of the issue (which is also evidenced by the comparison to physical exercise) and th…

Zynga was once insanely successful as well, making north of $2.3 million per day with a 47% profit margin: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870351550457614... And then …

I'm not sure if this is more of a testament to their corporate strategy or the effectiveness of the freemium model for mobile games. It's amazing how difficult it is to sell an iOS…

> By "Internet Famous" he is not actually famous to the greater internet So he's internet famous but not internet famous? > . . .but convincingly appears so. Obviously if put to th…

"Internet famous" still involves actual humans being aware of your existence. This guy just bought some Twitter followers, posted a fake Wikipedia article, and then arbitrarily dec…

That's good to hear -- I own the previous Nexus and skipped the Nexus 4 mostly because of the customer service complaints. Still, it will take a lot more stories like yours to repa…

So we can expect a bunch of half-assed software with no support? Awesome. At least with paid apps we have a reasonable expectation of customer service and timely updates. Google's …

Wow, that's quite a fortune they'd be raking in if people are actually paying $100,000 per day for promotion. I agree with most people that paid app promotions are almost universal…